Piper shoes and poppies, Remembrance Day, Looking Forward to Peace Event, Tewantin-Noosa RSL Memorial Park, Tewantin, 11 November 2018

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TitlePiper shoes and poppies, Remembrance Day, Looking Forward to Peace Event, Tewantin-Noosa RSL Memorial Park, Tewantin, 11 November 2018Additional InformationTo mark the Centenary of the Armistice (1918-2018) worldwide, pipe bands from many nations participated in the Battles O’er Tribute – over 100,000 bagpipers around the world played the same tune at exactly the same time, the appropriately named ‘When the Battle’s O’er’. When the Battle’s O’er was adopted after World War I as a tribute to more than 2000 British and Commonwealth pipers who lost their lives in battle during the war.
More than 1000 pipers and drummers from Australian pipe bands, in more than 150 suburbs and communities across Australia, the haunting bagpipe tune When The Battle’s O’er was played at 5pm in NSW, Victoria, and Tasmania, 4.30pm Queensland, 3.30pm Northern Territory and 2pm Western Australia, at the exact time the Armistice was signed on the 11th hour on the 11th day on the 11th month to end fighting in “the war to end all wars”.

It is estimated that up to 1,900 pipers were either killed or wounded in the conflict.Date11 November 2018PhotographerSarah Jane SmithStudioYour Life PhotographyImage No181111250

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LocalityTewantinPlaceTewantin-Noosa RSL Memorial ParkEventRemembrance Day Event - 'Looking Forward to Peace'

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